There ought to be some other means of reckoning quality in this the best and loveliest of games; the scoreboard is an ass.

In cricket, as in no other game, a great master may well go back to the pavilion scoreless.... In no other game does the law of averages get to work so potently, so mysteriously.

The elements are cricket's presiding geniuses.

The laws of cricket tell of the English love of compromise between a particular freedom and a general orderliness, or legality.

Such reproductions may not interest the reader; but after all, this is my autobiography, not his; he is under no obligation to read further in it; he was under none to begin. A modest or inhibited autobiography is written without entertainment to the writer and read with distrust by the reader.

It is far more than a game, this cricket.

A snick by Jack Hobbs is a sort of disturbance of a cosmic orderliness.